The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

From Professor McGonagall's point of view, her request was reasonable, but it would be damned if Umbridge could accept it. In other words, a little guy like her has no right to accept it.

The evacuation of dementors can and can only be ordered by the Minister of Magic, and the current Minister of Magic happens to be irresponsible. It would be better to expect Fudge to order the removal of the Dementors than to expect Sirius to die from accidentally eating poisonous mushrooms in the wild.

Umbridge: Are you looking for trouble? Are you giving this investigator a hard time?

"Minerva, please stop joking!"

"I'm not joking."

Umbridge: ...

Umbridge didn't even bother to put a fake smile on her face. She screamed quickly: "This is impossible. Minerva, I warn you, removing the dementors is extremely dangerous. , will cause Hogwarts to lose its protection, and will cause innocent children to be exposed to the eyes of evil fanatics. You can afford it——"

"But Sirius has already slipped in under the eyes of the Dementors once," Professor McGonagall crossed her arms and looked at the clown indifferently, "The portrait of the Fat Lady has not been repaired yet."

"I think the teachers of the school and Principal Dumbledore are enough to protect the students. Even the mysterious man can't do anything to us, let alone a Sirius. To put it harshly, the one who causes the greatest harm to the students is the one you are supported by the Ministry of Magic. Dementors."

The last sentence directly broke Umbridge's defense. She immediately started showing off: I won’t listen to Mag’s chanting!

Seeing Umbridge's non-violent and non-cooperative look, McGonagall was like a cat scratching a toad, with nowhere to claw. Non-violence and non-cooperation means that violence will lead to cooperation. However, Umbridge is also an official of the Ministry of Magic, and Hogwarts is not the home of dark wizards. How could she attack serious officials?

Professor McGonagall was helpless. Negotiations reached an impasse.

She knew it would be difficult to get the Ministry of Magic to admit their mistake, and it was almost impossible to get them to remove the dementors, but she had to try. Because this is the best time to drive out the Dementors.

At this time, the bell rang for the end of get out of class. Umbridge, who was at a disadvantage in the negotiation, said to Professor McGonagall as if she was grasping a life-saving straw: "Minerva, get out of class is over, let's go have lunch first? To be honest, , I miss the pudding in the canteen very much."

"Of course," Professor McGonagall took a deep breath as the subject was diverted, and led Umbridge towards the castle.

Behind her, Umbridge showed a proud smile. This trick was a trick she learned in the ministry: when encountering a difficult matter, you can delay it first, let the other party's energy wear off, and then wait for opportunities to find loopholes. Of course, returning home in fine clothes is also a selfish move of hers.

Umbridge did not do well at Hogwarts when she was a student. Now that she has become "successful and famous", she naturally wants to come back and show off her power.

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"Everyone will hand in a werewolf-themed paper and two volumes of parchment before class next week, focusing on how to identify werewolves. get out of class is over!" Snape finished the assignment and dismissed the class, leaving the little wizards wailing in the classroom.

Tom followed the flow of people out of the classroom and prepared to go to the auditorium for lunch. As he walked through the corridor, he looked out the corridor window and saw Professor McGonagall walking up the stairs into the Great Hall with a blob of pink.

"Umbridge? What is she doing here?" Tom immediately recognized the witch who visited Hogwarts with Fudge two years ago. He felt that this guy probably didn't have any good intentions when he came to Hogwarts. He couldn't possibly be here to visit his alma mater, right?

After a little analysis, Tom immediately guessed the purpose of Umbridge coming here: to clean up the mess left by the dementors.

"Maybe this is an opportunity that can be exploited?" According to Tom, he didn't want the Dementors to hang around the door of Hogwarts every day. If he could take this opportunity to drive the Dementors away from Hogwarts, that would be the best option. Well, if not, then you should also look at the possibility of using Umbridge to improve your reputation among the Dementors.

Tom walked into the auditorium with his plan in mind. Umbridge was already sitting on the staff bench at this time.

She soon regretted it.

Umbridge, wearing a baby pink wizard robe, immediately attracted the attention of the students. Many students sat in the audience and pointed at her. This is nothing. After so many years of experience, Umbridge has long been as thick-skinned as a social nerd, and pointing fingers is nothing.

The key is that Professor McGonagall's next move was to put her on the fire.

Professor McGonagall stood up, cleared her throat, and tapped the goblet in her hand to signal the students to quiet down.

"Students, please welcome Ms. Dolores Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary of the Ministry of Magic and Ombudsman of the Ministry of Magic, to Hogwarts."

Professor McGonagall paused, glanced at Umbridge and continued: "As we all know, during the Quidditch match last Saturday, the dementors broke into Hogwarts and disrupted our match day. It was a mess. The Ministry of Magic was deeply sorry that the Dementors under the control of the Ministry of Magic had caused such a bad incident, so they specially sent Ms. Umbridge to assist us in investigating the Dementor riots in the past few days. I believe she will be able to give us a satisfactory answer."

After Professor McGonagall introduced Umbridge, she closed her mouth and waited for the little wizards to applaud Umbridge. Although Umbridge's personal image was not good, she was here to deal with the Dementor incident after all, and the young wizards applauded her.

This burst of applause made Umbridge, who just wanted to go back to her alma mater to show off, a little embarrassed: she knew that the students wanted to punish the dementors, but her own purpose was opposite to theirs. The children's sincere smiles and applause were so ironic at this moment. Of course, after working in the Ministry of Magic for so many years, Umbridge no longer had the slightest moral burden, so this embarrassment quickly turned into shame - Umbridge felt that these young wizards were really She is ignorant and has caused trouble for herself and the Ministry of Magic. Minerva who instigated them is even more hateful...

Amidst the applause, Umbridge gradually adjusted her mentality. She thought clearly: all she had to do was give an explanation, and someone would believe it.

There is a very key idea in the marketing field called "Any publicity is good publicity", which means that if you want to promote an idea, even creating negative news is better than no one paying attention. A president with a loose mouth openly insults reporters at a press conference, and voters think he is "flesh and blood." What's more, Umbridge is really backed by the Ministry of Magic, and her arguments are quite reasonable. How reliable?

She was naive. Professor McGonagall's opening remarks could only be regarded as igniting the fire. What really set her on fire was Professor McGonagall's next question.

"Ms. Umbridge, can you tell the children about your plan to punish the dementors?"

"Of course, wait, what's the punishment?!" Umbridge was startled, her little eyes suddenly widened, and her voice even sounded a little higher.

"No matter what the original intention of the dementors' actions is, the trouble they cause to the students does exist, and punishment is inevitable." On the way to the auditorium, Professor McGonagall figured out something: it is difficult for the Ministry of Magic to He gave in openly, but he could make them suffer a hidden loss - first punish the dementors in fact, and then start a verbal war with the Ministry of Magic.

And in front of all the teachers and students of the school, the advantages of this public opinion environment can be maximized.

Sure enough, after hearing what Professor McGonagall said, there was a buzz in the auditorium. The little wizards all felt that Professor McGonagall was right. No matter what their starting point was, the Dementors should be punished.

"My father said that dementors are just slaves of wizards. Now they dare to do such a thing. They are really master-eaters!" Malfoy sat at the long table of Slytherin College and complained in a loud voice. With. The dementors that appeared during the game that day really made him a little unhappy.

"No reason should be an excuse for the Dementors to escape punishment!" More and more young wizards are realizing this.

"If you make a mistake, you should be punished!" Tom raised his voice and shouted, causing the surrounding students to agree.

Sweat broke out on Umbridge's forehead. Fudge did agree to punish the Dementors, but that was the bottom line for the Ministry of Magic. As a result, Minerva now directly bypassed the investigation and demanded that the dementors be punished first before any discussion. This is really fatal!

How can any negotiation start from one party’s bottom line? ! Also, if they dared to punish the Dementors now, she wouldn't even dare to think about what they would dare to do in a while!

"Well... realizing, maintaining and developing the interests of wizards is the basic code of conduct of the Ministry of Magic. We have decided to let the young wizards of Hogwarts enjoy more real, full and extensive power, and focus on solving your problem. The most concerned, direct and realistic interests. To this end, we have built a reliable, business-savvy, efficient and high-quality Ministry of Magic service team. Of course, we will also strengthen our own construction, exert coordination and strive to Play the role of gathering strength and coordinating the overall situation - we will use extraordinary determination and energy, extraordinary tough measures, and extraordinary work results to perform well..."

Umbridge didn't know what to say for the moment, so she took out the wheelbarrow words she usually said at Ministry of Magic meetings and started to reread them. These clichés may seem elegant and full of ambition, but in fact they do not express any real views. They have only one advantage, and that is that they are infallible when spoken.

"So is the Ministry of Magic going to punish the Dementors? Yes or no?" Fred felt dizzy, so he stood up and asked loudly.

"This classmate, please don't interrupt me. This is a waste of everyone's time. There are so many teachers and students in the school. If you waste one minute for each of them, it is a waste of ten or even dozens of hours - —" Umbridge was a little dissatisfied, dissatisfied with her speech being interrupted, dissatisfied with Fred raising a very pointed question.

So she scolded him severely. According to her idea, Fred should sit down with shame on his face and fall into autistic isolation.

But he didn't. There's no way Fred would fall into autism because of this little thing. He's not that kind of person. So he ignored the angry look his brother Percy was giving him.

"Time cannot be superimposed!"

At this moment, one sentence diverted the attention of everyone present.

"Sorry, what?" Umbridge thought she might have heard something wrong.

"I said time is not superimposable," Tom repeated what he said. "One minute for one person is still one minute, and one minute for a group of people is still one minute. It will not become five minutes or ten minutes because of the increase in the number of people." Minutes. So Fred only wasted everyone one minute at most."

Umbridge: ...

After Tom finished speaking, the classmates around him echoed.

"That's right!"

"yes--"

"Ms. Umbridge, I'm willing to let Fred waste my time."

All the students looked at Umbridge, waiting for her answer.

"Yes" or "No", these two simple words were placed in front of Umbridge, forcing her into a corner.

"Yes and no," Umbridge replied bravely, "This is a serious matter that requires long-term consideration and serious and rigorous investigation!"

Hearing what she said, the little wizards were a little disappointed. They thought that this official was here to help them vent their anger, but they didn't expect that he would actually discuss it in the long term. Do you really think what happened to them was fake?

Silence gradually fell into the auditorium.

"Why not ask the dementors?" A crisp voice sounded in the auditorium.

Umbridge looked towards the source of the voice and saw a little girl wearing strange clothes and with light blond hair speaking.

The speaker was Luna.

When the people around heard her speech, they couldn't help but cover their foreheads: This crazy girl is getting sick again! How do you communicate with things like dementors? This method is too unreliable.

But Umbridge on the stage didn't think so. After hearing what Luna said, her eyes lit up. She really found an excellent solution!

Young wizards who don't know the truth always think that dementors are inhumane, cold, cruel, and incommunicable monsters, but in fact they are not like this. As an insider of the Ministry of Magic, Umbridge had some understanding of the nature of the Dementors.

She knew very well that this kind of monster could actually communicate. Otherwise, how could the Ministry of Magic control them and set rules for them?

But they are really cold and cruel...so few people are willing to communicate with them. But coincidentally, Umbridge is the one who understands their meaning and is willing to communicate with them. When she entered the Ministry of Magic, she suffered a lot in order to be promoted.

She immediately borrowed the donkey from Poxia, saying that this was how it should be, and after lunch she took the school professor to question the dementors.

Since this incident involves dementors, it is only reasonable to ask about the "monster" involved! As for what you can ask...

Hey hey hey...

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